11.26.2007

And they say desegregation was a big step forward,but integration only covered up a rotten core.The surfaced might have changed,but the cauldron is still hot.Now we're more politically correct,with less real talk.-"North by Northwest" by Blue Scholars

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Another Conflict Theorist
said...

Peace,

Funny thing about desegregation...it hasn't really done much for the black underclass. Some years back, I wrote a paper about the deleterious effects of integration and my (black, old-school) instructor wrote me off for the rest of the semester. You can't convince those of our parent's generation that the movement toward integration may have been a misstep.

Double Consciousness is a term that comes from the pen of W. E. B. Du Bois which was made popular in his book The Souls of Black Folk. For Du Bois it meant “always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” and of having two identities, one being American and the other being a person of color. “Two warring ideals in one dark body.” The title is also a pun on the fact that the two blog founders/editors are of different ethnicities which obviously effects the way they perceive the world. Jack Stephens is white (three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Guatemalan) and C is Pilipino. Despite this fact they are both unified in their thought on critiquing white privilege in American society and in combating its effects on people of color.